This nine-page briefing describes the NSA’s major missions and signals intelligence priorities for 2007: see the New York Times article No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A., 2 November 2013.

This document lists the 193 governments, intragovernmental organisations and other entities which the NSA was granted the legal authority to intercept communications “about” for foreign intelligence purposes in August 2010: see the Washington Post article Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, 30 June 2014.

This internal NSA post from September 2006 describes the evolution of the European Security Operations Center and the focus of the US-German collaboration in signals intelligence: see the Der Spiegel article Terrorverdächtige: NSA nutzte Erkenntnisse aus Deutschland-Filiale für Tötungen, 15 June 2014.

﻿(U//FOUOKTh^European. Security Center to Become the 'ESOC'
FROM:
A&P‘s Director, Enterprise Management (S2)
Run Date: 09/11/2006
(S//SI) NSA to help build up capabilities of the intell...

This 26-page NSA document, originally presented at 2012’s Five Eyes SIGDEV conference, gives a detailed overview of the agency’s information gathering on world mobile phone networks. Some intercepted technical and contact details have been redacted: see the Intercept article Operation Auroragold: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide, 4 December 2014.

﻿SECRET//SI//REL TO FVEY
(U//FOUO) AURORAGOLD
Working Group
(S//SI//REL) Shaping understanding of
the global GSm/uMTS/LTE landscape
SIGDEV Conference - 6 June 2012
This briefing is cl...

This short extract from a GCHQ Network Analysis Centre report covering the period July-September 2011 describes “offensive cyber operations” against Iran, Argentina and Libya: see the Intercept article Britain Used Spy Team to Shape Latin American Public Opinion on Falklands, 2 April 2015.

This agreement, dated 15 July 1999, includes a preamble describing the development of signals intelligence cooperation between the US and Israel since the 1950s: see the Intercept article Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: the U.S. is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack, 4 August 2014.

﻿TOP S E C R E T/HVCCO
1. (S) preamblei in 1968 President Johnson and Prime Minister
Eshkol agreed that an intelligence exchange would take place
between the United States and Israel. This und...

This undated presentation from the NSA’s European Cryptologic Center explains some of the activities of the agency’s main European base: see the Der Spiegel article Terrorverdächtige: NSA nutzte Erkenntnisse aus Deutschland-Filiale für Tötungen, 15 June 2014.

Congressional Budget Justification summary for fiscal year 2013 from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI): see the Washington Post article U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary, 29 August 2013.

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FY 2013
Congressional Budget Justification
Volume I
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM SUMMARY
February 2012
TOP SECRET//SI/TK//NOFORN
TOP SECRET//SI/TK//...